Newly released cellphone footage is shedding light on the confrontation that ended with a Minneapolis woman being shot and killed by a federal immigration agent, an incident that has intensified already high tensions surrounding the Trump administration’s enforcement actions on illegal immigration in the city.
The video, made public on Friday, comes two days after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot Renee Nicole Good during an encounter on a residential street. Authorities say the shooting occurred as Good allegedly drove her vehicle toward officers on the scene.
Footage recorded from an ICE agent’s perspective shows Good’s Honda Pilot stopped in the middle of a neighborhood roadway, apparently obstructing traffic. During an exchange with one of the agents, Good appears calm, telling him, “That’s fine, dude,” and adding, “ I’m not mad.”
Moments later, one agent circles the vehicle to inspect its license plate. Another officer then approaches the driver’s side and orders Good to exit the SUV. “Get out of the car. Get out of the …. car,” the agent can be heard saying on the recording.
Instead of exiting, Good reverses briefly and then accelerates forward toward the agent wearing the body camera. As the vehicle moves in his direction, the agent is heard exclaiming “whoa” before gunshots are fired. The SUV then veers ahead and slams into a parked car.
The shooting has sparked fierce backlash and renewed criticism of the Trump administration, with Democratic officials disputing federal claims that the agent acted in self-defense. Federal authorities, for their part, have described the shooting as a justified response to an imminent threat and have characterized the incident as an act of domestic terrorism.
Officials also noted that the agent who fired the shots had previously been injured in a separate incident last year, when he was dragged by a fleeing driver. They said he sustained injuries during Wednesday’s confrontation as well, though Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey dismissed those claims.
“The ICE agent walked away with a hip injury that he might as well as gotten from closing a refrigerator door with his hips…,” Frey told reporters Friday. “Give me a break. No, he was not ran over. He walked out of there with a hop in his step.”
Authorities have said Good had been following and harassing federal officers earlier in the day. Federal sources also told Fox News that she was an immigration activist based in Minneapolis and a member of a group known as ICE Watch.
According to Homeland Security sources cited by Fox News, ICE Watch operates in multiple sanctuary cities nationwide and seeks to monitor, track, interfere with, and oppose federal immigration enforcement activities.
{Matzav.com}
Maybe the privileged white female Karen shouldn’t of been shot, but believe me, no one is losing any sleep over the fact that this piece of trash is gone.
Once again it’s clear she got what she deserved. Swiss brain!
Or Swiss cheese.
This quotes taken out of context are misleading:
“During an exchange with one of the agents, Good appears calm, telling him, ‘That’s fine, dude,’ and adding, ‘I’m not mad’.”
And then things escalate…it’s misleading because it makes them seem nicer than they actually behaved.
The women involved were clearly snarky, sarcastic, and passive-aggressive, and the above quotes were said in a smirky way.
Also, a lot of people don’t know that just before a perp tries to kill a cop, they often act calm, victimized, and even whiny. Ironically, they generally don’t act aggressively, but petulantly. There’s a lot of footage to prove this.
Having said that, I don’t think she was trying to run over the officer (I think she was just stupidly trying to either scare them or flee), but from where the officers were standing, particularly the one by her window and the one in front, they might’ve felt they she meant to run them over and literally had a split-second to decide.
I blame her and not the cops.